Player Salaries:http://i.imgur.com/sdng1.png
Source: Storytellers Contracts
Note: Clicking through to the storytellers site gives much more info on contracts (for all teams) including incentive structures, cap exceptions used for signing, and options.

This is just an update of last year's thread - a place to discuss power rankings and whatever other sorts of ratings and whatever the sites and networks do, so that we don't have 10 new threads about it each week. Enjoy.

Israel Gutierrez, ESPN.com: Evan Turner, Sixers. With last year's leader, Andre Iguodala, and last year's designated chucker, Lou Williams, both gone, either Turner or Jrue Holiday should rise and be this team's premier perimeter threat to complement Andrew Bynum. Given their career numbers and Holiday's nice playoff performance last spring, Turner has more room to climb, and he should make a third-year leap.

5. Which East playoff team will move to elite status?

Stein: If you read the first edition of ESPN.com's NBA Power Rankings, you'll know that I see the Sixers with the potential to make that sort of move, all because they traded for a franchise center while helping to rid the East of Howard in the same deal. Some 72 hours after the rankings published, Philly was announcing that Bynum would have to be rested for the first three weeks of his Sixers career as a precautionary measure after his latest knee surgery. Which would suggest that the ol' Power Rankings jinx is still a force that trumps my powers of prognostication.

^Hell yeah. And we're 7th in ESPN's first power rankings. I forget if that was posted in here or not, but it definitely turned some heads in the main forum.

10-23-2012, 09:49 PM

bholly

Random stats:
Over the last 5 seasons we've allowed just 3 40-point games, tied with the Lakers for best in the league. Over 10 seasons we've allowed 14 while the Lakers have allowed 13, making us tied for second with the Raptors and Spurs.

Also the last time we gave up a 50 point game was Nov 16 1988 to MJ (he had 5 that season). Since that date (just under 24 full seasons), only us and the Spurs haven't given up a 50 point game, although there've been 147 in the league over that time.

None of it really means much, I just found it and thought it was interesting-ish.

10-23-2012, 09:52 PM

RickyPrior

Quote:

Originally Posted by bholly

Random stats:
Over the last 5 seasons we've allowed just 3 40-point games, tied with the Lakers for best in the league. Over 10 seasons we've allowed 14 while the Lakers have allowed 13, making us tied for second with the Raptors and Spurs.

Also the last time we gave up a 50 point game was Nov 16 1988 to MJ (he had 5 that season). Since that date (just under 24 full seasons), only us and the Spurs haven't given up a 50 point game, although there've been 147 in the league over that time.

None of it really means much, I just found it and thought it was interesting-ish.

Iggy

10-23-2012, 10:16 PM

bholly

I'm certain he helped the last few years, but not that much before then.

Also helps that almost 10% (12 of 147) of those 50 point games were for the Sixers, and therefore couldn't have been against the Sixers.
Plus the Lakers had 27 of them, and none against us - which might've been different if we played them more than twice a year.